An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWinston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.
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I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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